FOURTH-GRADE BLUES Joshua T. Bates is no stranger to trouble. First he flunked third grade and had to spend three months repeating it. Now he's been promoted to

Tommy Wilhelm and his gang of bullies have never let fifth-grader Joshua forget that he was held back in the third grade. Now Tommy has started picking on a dor

In this Knopf Paperback reissue, Joshua is devastated to learn that he must repeat third grade. But he manages to survive the taunts of former classmates, learn

In the sequel to The Flunking of Joshua T. Bates, Joshua, now in the fifth grade, is caught between a gang of bullies and a short red-haired kid and must decide